Industrial Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) method

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is a technology that combines bioenergy production with carbon capture and storage.

BECCS technology uses biomass like plants or organic waste to produce bioenergy (burning biomass for heat, electricity, or biofuels). When these biomass sources are burned for energy, they release CO₂, but since the plants absorb CO₂ while growing, it's considered carbon-neutral. Furthermore, BECCS adds carbon capture and storage (CCS) to capture that released CO₂ and store it underground or used in some way, thus removing CO₂ from the atmosphere. This makes BECCS one of several negative emission technologies (NET).

BECCS is often conflated with Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS). BECCS is a subset of BiCRS. BECCS focuses on energy production + carbon removal, while BiCRS is a broader category of methods that use biomass to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and store it long-term, with or without energy production.

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